Getz Plays Jobim: The Girl from Ipanema

1	Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) 4:14
2	Desafinado 5:50
3	Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) 4:15
4	The Girl from Ipanema 5:22
5	O Morro Não Tem Vez 6:53
6	Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) 2:53
7	One Note Samba Instrumental 6:11
8	Eu E Voce 2:29
9	Desafinado 4:12
10	Once Again 6:41
11	O Grande Amor 5:25
12	So Danço Samba 3:44
13	Insensatez 3:21
14	One Note Samba Version 3:07

Barnes & Noble

The magisterial tenor saxophonist Stan Getz could make anything sound good. (John Coltrane, it’s been stated, once claimed that if all saxophonists could get a sound like Getz, they would.) But when the material he played was stellar, as it is on this stunning compilation, then watch out. Antonio Carlos Jobim was Brazil’s gift to the world of popular music, a brilliant songwriter who practically invented what we now recognize as bossa nova. Among Jobim’s masterworks are such gently propulsive songs as “Desafinado,” “Corcorvado,” “How Insensitive,” “O Grande Amour,” “One Note Samba,” and, the archetypal bossa nova tune “The Girl from Ipanema.” Getz interprets all of these gems here, exhibiting his gorgeous tone and superior gifts as a melodic improviser. The tenor giant was instrumental in propagating Brazilian music in the early to mid-'60s, and his ease with the rhythms and Jobim’s sophisticated harmonies is striking in its naturalness. There are wonderful contributions from vocalists João and Astrud Gilberto, and instrumentalists including guitarist Charlie Byrd, but Getz remains the focal point. His glory is shared only with Jobim himself. Steve Futterman

All Music Guide

Simply put, here are the most successful 14 cuts covering two years in the collaboration between Stan Getz and Antonio Carlos Jobim, during which both men became accustomed to having hit singles. Unfortunately, only one of them got to ride that horse for the rest of the decade -- in the United States, anyway. Nonetheless, this material marks the Americans obsession with the bossa nova and was the music that made Getz and Jobim household names for a while -- after all, we were just climbing out of the "swinging bachelor pad" music era and still had all those weird hi fi records to explore. Seriously though, the great sensitivity shown by Getz for this material, and the adventurousness of Jobim were a match made in heaven and would change the faces of jazz and Brazilian pop forever. This is a fine collection for anyone interested in bossa, and Getz in this period as well. Thom Jurek